From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>
Cc: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:39:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46325F89.408@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.98.0704251111000.18512@sigma.j-a-k-j.com>
John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
>> I didn't read your whole post, it's way too long, but I would like to see
>> your patch in mainline as an option to swsusp. What would make this
>> infeasible?
>
> For one thing, Linus said not but yesterday that he doesn't want multiple
> competing suspend algorithms like this in the kernel at once. (If I parsed
> his message correctly, he doesn't want any in the kernel, but he's putting
> up with it because it seems somewhat needed.)
My take on what he said also included avoiding putting critical stuff in
user space, resulting in problems keeping the whole process consistent.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-27 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-25 12:51 Reasons to merge suspend2 Al Boldi
2007-04-25 15:13 ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-04-25 16:01 ` William Heimbigner
2007-04-25 16:16 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-25 16:23 ` William Heimbigner
2007-04-25 21:33 ` Al Boldi
2007-04-27 20:39 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-25 1:32 Nigel Cunningham
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